1996
Despoina and Henri meet in Strasbourg
2009
Despoina inherits the family house in Ysternia
2011
PilgrimIsle opens with three rooms
2014
The September Residency welcomes its first writer
2018
Stavros Zafeiriou writes *Slow Marble* during his residency
2023
Listed in *Condé Nast Traveller* as one of "ten quiet places worth the journey"
2025
The bookshop opens in the small barn next to the chapel